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David Woods welcomes enquiries on his books and future projects: woodsdavid55@gmail.com General enquiries to: info@wta-publishing.comThe Author
During his professional career, David Woods worked as a journalist, a press spokesman in Whitehall and for the World Trade Organization in Geneva, a communications director in the City of London, a publisher and a consultant on international trade. For the past few years he has devoted much time to research and writing books, principally on the history of Chile including the roles played there by Europeans. The first book, The Bombardment of Paradise, was published in 2011 and, in Spanish, in 2013. Woods has now completed a much broader account of the Europeans who voyaged to the west coast of South America as immigrants, entrepreneurs, naval officers, explorers, farmers and so on, from the Spanish Conquistadores onwards. The book Valparaiso Bound! was published in October 2016 with a second edition released in 2025. Woods’s special interest in Chile intensified after he and his wife bought a nineteenth- century house in the UNESCO World Heritage port city of Valparaiso. During five years of restoration work, and since, he was able to research aspects of the European roots of the country in museums and archives across Chile as well as in France, the United States and the United Kingdom. David Woods has also written a satirical novel, called Sustaining Dugoud, humourously reflecting his experiences working in internatiional organizations. Apart from their frequent visits to South America, David and his wife live with their five cats near Aix-en-Provence, France. He is energetically engaged in curating exhibitions of art in the nearby Chäteau de Lourmarin.
© WTA Publishing
Contact
David Woods welcomes enquiries on his books and future projects: woodsdavid55@gmail.com General enquiries to: info@wta-publishing.comThe Author
During his professional career, David Woods has worked as a journalist, a press spokesman in Whitehall and for the World Trade Organization in Geneva, a communications director in the City of London, a publisher and a consultant on international trade. For the past few years he has devoted much time to research and writing books, principally on the history of Chile including the roles played there by Europeans. The first book, The Bombardment of Paradise, was published in 2011 and, in Spanish, in 2013. Woods has now completed a much broader account of the Europeans who voyaged to the west coast of South America as immigrants, entrepreneurs, naval officers, explorers, farmers and so on, from the Spanish Conquistadores onwards. The book Valparaiso Bound! was published in October 2016 with a second edition released in 2025. Woods’s special interest in Chile intensified after he and his wife bought a nineteenth-century house in the UNESCO World Heritage port city of Valparaiso. During five years of restoration work, and since, he was able to research aspects of the European roots of the country in museums and archives across Chile as well as in France, the United States and the United Kingdom. David Woods has also written a satirical novel, called Sustaining Dugoud, humourously reflecting his experiences working in internatiional organizations. Apart from their frequent visits to South America, David Woods and his wife live with their five cats near Aix-en-Provence, France. He is energetically engaged in curating exhibitions of art in the nearby Chäteau de Lourmarin.
